Affiliation: China National Institute of Standardization

Associate Professor Lan’s research spans agricultural standardization research and the development of agricultural product standard samples, leading to materials with properties useful in the detection of trace substances in complex matrices and healthcare.

Dr. Tao Lan began his formal studies in environmental engineering at Nanjing University of Science & Technology (B.S. 2002 & M.S. 2006). He obtained his Ph.D. in applied chemistry from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2014, and performed postdoctoral research with Prof. Shaorong Liu at the University of Oklahoma. He joined the China National Institute of Standardization in 2016 and was appointed as Associate Professor in 2018.

During the past five years, he has presided over and participated in 12 national, provincial, and ministerial projects, prepared more than 20 national reference materials for natural products such as gastrodin and salidroside, with leading and participating in 20 national and industrial standards, and applied for more than 20 national invention patents and utility model patents such as a tannic acid band-aid and its preparation method, of which 8 patents were authorized. He has published more than 30 academic papers on the quality of agricultural products, healthy food, and testing methods in SCI journals such as Food Chemistry, and Chemosphere, and has written one English monograph. He reviewed more than 30 papers for Food Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, and other magazines. And as a guest editor, he contributed 3 issues to the Chinese Journal of Food Industry Science and Technology.